WV Teacher Strike

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Here's some news you may not have heard of. Teachers in the state of West Virginia have gone on strike for the past two days, closing every school in the state, with plans to continue into next week. They have been swept up in a protest against their government mandated wages and insurance, inspired by similar protests in Wisconsin and Chicago in 2011 and 2012. The only problem is, the state does not have the money to drive wages up by 5 or more percent that they ask for. Also because many children rely on the school for meals, children across the state are now suffering shortages of food.

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Now the state can't push marxist programming onto our children

we need federal schooling with K-12 emphasis on S.T.E.M fields.

they're white Trump supporters, fuck them I hope they od on fentanyl

Yes the push is by almost exclusively Democrats, the goal is to have some kind of big activist movement that they can use in film reels for November campaign ads. Many parents are not happy, and you can tell which people are agents of an agenda.

allowing teachers unions was a mistake. one school in my state has a 3% passing for math. average for my state is 48% "at passing" with 44% "under passing". teachers sleep in class, read books, or preach about how whitey is evil. these teachers dont give a flying fuck about the kids, no wonder they say they wont fucking protect them in school

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Here's an archive of a Washington Post article, interesting because there is more clarification by the state superintendent that these actions are currently not legal.

They claim the money they currently receive does not reflect the quality of their work, and yet the results tell a different story. They cannot prepare students for college, yet claim they deserve higher pay for the effort.

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‘They have had it’: West Virginia teachers strike, closing all public schools
By Sarah Larimer February 22 Email the author

Jennifer Hanner, a first-year teacher from Harts, W.Va., held a sign Thursday outside the state Senate chambers in Charleston, W.Va. Teachers statewide went on strike Thursday over pay and benefits. (John Raby/AP)
Teachers across West Virginia walked off the job Thursday amid a dispute over pay and benefits, causing more than 277,000 public school students to miss classes even as educators swarmed the state Capitol in Charleston to protest.
All 55 counties in the state closed schools during Thursday’s work stoppage, Alyssa Keedy, a spokeswoman for the state’s Department of Education, said.
[The day Florida teachers resigned en masse in the country’s first statewide strike]
“Work stoppages by public employees are not lawful in West Virginia and will have a negative impact on student instruction and classroom time,” West Virginia Superintendent of Schools Steven Paine said in a statement this week. “Families will be forced to seek out alternative safe locations for their children, and our many students who depend on schools for daily nutrition will face an additional burden. I encourage our educators to advocate for the benefits they deserve, but to seek courses of action that have the least possible disruption for our students.”

At least once a week I have to read in the fucking news about some teacher banging their students and these cock sucking homos want MORE money? How about you'll get the fucking money when you start doing your goddamn job

Unions are going to get anally raped in the scotus case next week.

Sauce?

I never feel bad for the teachers here. My education was pretty shitty and considering how poor people are in WV, 40k a year is damn good. They have it better than they'll ever know.

Never scrubbing dried shit off toilets, burning themselves on oily grills, digging in the hot sun, watching people either and die in the healthcare field etc. Fuck 'em.

Teachers are probably the most over paid people on the planet and they can't stop bitching, I'm so glad they'll become irrelevant in the future due to online programs

I hope to fuck that the Dept. of Education throws its fucking weight around now and forces massive revamps of public schools, period. Our public schools no longer actually engage the kids and teach them, and the fucking teachers don't bother going to kid's homes, or even fucking stay after school to help anyone. They don't even update their motherfucking teaching planner. Its the same every single fucking year.

I think what should be done is greater support for private schools and school choice for parents. When the public schools have to start competing for enrollment they'll shape up or else risk losing their students and support. It's a shame, because knowing how powerful the unions are I doubt they would ever allow such a thing to happen.

>WV here.
The main reason for the strike is a major increase in the state-sponsored health insurance plan (PEIA) rather than the lack of a salary raise.

WVanon here. These fucking snowflake teachers are pissing me off. They get a raise every goddamn year, and the median salary for a teacher's 200 day contract is higher than the median HOUSEHOLD income for a whole year.
The legislature already gave them a 4% raise over the next three years and froze any increases in their insurance premiums, but that's not enough.
Other state employees haven't had a raise in 12 fucking years, but these teachers don't give a shit about that. They'd be happy to screw everybody else and bankrupt the state for another percent or two.
I'm sure that CPS workers and prison guards and psychiatric nurses would love to walk off their shitty, low paid jobs too, but they can't because if they're not there, people die.
Fuck these teachers and their stupid fucking union.

Exactly. Do they get paid lower than people in other states? Yeah, sure. But so does everybody else in WV...

They can pay for teacher salary increase by firing all the bloated management every school seems to have.

There should be a maximum number of those fucking management positions per student. It's fucking ridiculous.

No lie, the Board of Director in my county drives a brand new Jaguar and has a motorcycle.
DINGDINGDING
My WV HS teacher told us that since they make less than a garbage man does in NYC "that's" why they have to protest. They protest all the fucking time. Never mind how much more things cost in NYC, but the average salary for a household of 4 in my town is only $35,000...they make what? and have another spouse working?

Yes this is also a factor, however I await a concrete suggestion on how the unions want the insurance to be sorted out. Insurance has been for many years on the rise in general and yet the majority of people still have to go along with it. It exposes the weaknesses of state run institutions and programs, and yet they will not be pushing for a privatization of the programs. And the pay raise is part of the demands, which they have expressed they will not be budging on.

Oh they also said that "sense" they have to buy crayons and pencils, they deserve a few extra thousand...nevermind I have to buy my own materials for my job, but whatever...

Why are the teachers starving the children?

PEIA increases have been frozen for a year, and the House has already sent the Senate a bill to fully fund it.
Time for the teachers to go back home and start doing their fucking jobs.

The adminstrations are a big problem, they make up a large bureaucracy and have I don't believe they have enough oversight. They also have a huge leverage on communities.

fuck teachers. They work 10 months out of the year and get every holiday known to man off and expect to get paid like they work 12 months like everyone else. Arrested development all of them. Go to school from 5-18 years old. Then college till 22. Then in school as a teacher for the next 30 plus years. They never leave the classroom, they always get summers off. Fuck these glorified 12 year olds.

You did it, melepedes!

Teachers can also deduct the cost of classroom materials from their taxes.

State sponsored breakfast and lunches are free for the reallly poor kids. No teachers means no school means Jessie may doesn’t get to eat until dinner today

Poorer children and young children with working parents get most of their meals from school. No school equals no meals.

There are a couple churches in my area giving out bag lunches for kids who are out of school because of the teacher walkout.

So this is the power of socialism.

>west virginia
>rely on school for lunch
>starving

it's just the niggers then.

Sadly, no. Not many niggers here, which is good, but a quarter of the state population is on food stamps, and we've got one of the worst drug problems in the country. I love it here, but we've got some issues to work out.

No such thing as the mythical white privilege here, plenty of poor white kids without good homes or food. I knew many growing up.

Good on them. How long do you think they can keep it running if we're in for the long haul?

>many
if not around half of the people I ever knew in WV.

Morgantown here, born and raised. Where you at?

Dunno. I don't think this will go on much longer. I saw where a few counties in the eastern panhandle are opening the schools on Monday whether the rescuers are still on walkout or not. I hope they start docking pay.

Fayette County

I was in Morgantown for school back in the 90s. Loved it there, but a lot has changed.

I live in WV. What do we do about the drug problems? I want a vigilant program like the honorable Rodrigo Duterte is doing in the Philippines. I'm exasperated with the coddling of these community-destroyers. I want every drug-dealer dead.

WV bros. My aunt is in that picture.

That would leave some towns completely dead, and probably half of the people I know, if not most....

online schools are the answer to many problems.
Shut down all schoolhouses, lay off those teachers. Think of the money saved. Online classes are easier to monitor for parents. Online students are safe from predatory teachers. Online students can't be mass killed about fully clipped assault guns. No need to have massive fleets of buses burning millions of gallons of fuel.
Even if you had to provide free internet and computers, it would save trillions nationwide.

Yeah, I think making them pay for their own narcan would be a good start. They'd drop like flies.

Can't do the death penalty as it's already banned in WV.

You Mean Amazon Times or Bezos Herald.

>That would leave some towns completely dead, and probably half of the people I know, if not most....
that would be an improvement. drug users need to be eliminated.

I think they should pay for narcan, maybe stop administering it to repeat offenders. Users find incentive to quit when the penalties come down on them.

Make them leave.

If they could cut off the negroid pipeline from Detroit to Huntington it'd be a major improvement.

Ah someone else who has heard of this line...

>Make them leave.
they aren't welcome anywhere. let them OD

Yep. It should be one and done with the narcan. If they don't see that as wake-up call, they're already lost.

Don't forget Akron OH.

That's definitely the major source of drugs and crime in this part of the state.

Amen. There is a psychotic, female police chief in Huntington who is hailed as a hero for reviving these dopey criminals. I say the heroes are the ones who wait an hour or two before reporting these drug-heads to the police. I live in Parkersburg and I'm sick of seeing these gaunt chavs standing at every stop sign panhandling for money.

Laws can be changed, I know that many support death penalty.

>unionized government employees who are impossible to fire demanding more taxpayer money

gas them all

Yeah, basically just don't let in any more niggers.

Also!, how many days a year do they work? How many months off do they have?!!! Figure that, their criminal retirement and full healthcare. Fk em.

>implying you need a source for white Appalachians being Republican

You literally have people living in African tier shacks in WV

I think their usual contract is for 200 days a year. It's bullshit.

No lie, met one who laughed and told me they couldn't be fired.

They work roughly 8 months out of the year at around $45,000/yearly. Summer in WV is about 3 months long, plus the breaks inbetween winter break is about a month, and figure in Thanksgiving, Spring Break, various holidays, so let's say they work 7 months in total.

Liberals being selfish as usual.

They will use every word in the dictionary to tell people they care, but when push comes to shove, liberals are the first show their true colors of hate.

HAHAHAHAHHAA that is total poppycock. The people in WV are poor, but they're not that poor. Those hicks built that make-shift cabin. I guarantee they live in a shabby trailer somewhere. If you live in WV, and you're not a drug-head, you'll be fine financially.

It has changed tremendously, especially in the past 10 years

West Virginia is one of the cheapest states to live in as well. With $40k a year you can live pretty damn good. Modern people are just fucking spoiled.

You got a link to that? That's quite sad to see, I don't go down into the further southern parts of the state often. But think that if conditions are that bad already, now children there are without food.

I've been in both Huntington and Charleston and seen people actually just sprawled on the sidewalk with needles laying there. First time i saw it, I called 911. The next two times i said fuck it.

Huntington is truly a shit hole. I guy I know was mugged there, and the other day my best friend seen a dead guy just laying on the side of the road in downtown Huntington.

I can't imagine this could help the Dems in any way, people are gonna be pissed

POOR CHILDREN IN GREAT USA!? hahahahahaha

I THOUGHT YOU GUYS ARE FIRST WORLD, LIKE FIRST IN THE WORLD?

MY SIDES HAHAHA

I love traveling on the WV turnpike (64) and driving through WV. Mysterious beautiful country lets your mind wander traveling at night and you see a couple faint lights on the ridges of mostly dark shadowed mountains.

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This is insane and completely unacceptable
No whites should be living like this in the west

Yet another reason why WV shouldn't give the teachers more $$$. If anything, they should have their salaries reduced.

hahaha poor whites, muh IQ muh USA lets invade other coountries to defend their freedom while hahahhaha

But how can the singler mother teacher afford to raise her kids and also have money to spend during 3 months yearly vacation?

McDowell County is majorly fucked. Fun fact: It's the first place in the USA where the feds first tried out the food stamp program. They got people completely hooked on government handouts.

>import katrina niggers
>katrina niggers never go back
>turn south wv into african colony
>katrina niggers message their mammys great uncles kids in detroit about all dem white folks dat be lovin dem pillz and shiiiet
>detroit niggers start running the underground railroad in reverse to traffic ungodly amounts of illegal narcotics

Always stop and have lunch or dinner at Tamarack. Not the rest stop at the bottom of the hill, but the arts place at the top. The food is done by the Greenbrier, also known as Congress’ nuclear faklout shelter.

holy shit being so much cucked. USA citizens are literary 3d world trier while trump plays 4d chess

Hey man

I used to live in Fayetteville, how are things there now? Haven't lived there since 2005, I miss it..

>uniroincally living in that when you could build a log cabin from surrounding trees that is much nicer

Us White folk have lost our way.

Regarding teachers, they're shit up here in Leaf land as well. I hate drug dealers and users, they should all drop dead. Actually had the local meth dealer drop in his apartment yesterday or the day before, pretty happy about that.

Fayetteville is doing ok, really. Hipster haven.

Replace them all with right wing scabs.

Time to take names, and "deal" with them when the time comes.

there's a documentary, forgotten children of Appalachia or something. Ill get you the link

this might be the one, or at least is one of the ones.
>thread killer warning, shit is an hour long, come back to bump and reply
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All the while driving a nice new car, how absolutely destitute they are!

Children are going to die, because most get their meals from schools. I can vouch for this, because I wasnt rich growing up as a half-jap mutt.

>These teachers look like soyboys and feminists. Hand em the bluepill.

We are retard.
Commies can't understand our system is great because you can be as rich or as poor as you like.
I am glad those kids are poor, they will either work hard and get out or stay there idc.

children like to be poor, they like when they are hungry.
my sides hahahhahaha what a mental gymnasitcs

Teachers are such greedy shits.

Taxpayers can not afford their generous compensation packages.

"For the kids" my ass.

>this man is living here with his wife because the coal company he worked for WAS SHUT DOWN
>donald trump is on his way to hell
is this guy really shillin for shillary when she actively shilled to shut down even more coal mines?
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Reminds me of that one dude from WV who posted here concerning his neighbour whose house is made entirely of doors.

Wait did he say where, my mom used to tell me she knew a family growing up who built their house out of doors...